Focus on Electronics

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August 2005

Communication for the road

When traveling at speed in a convoy of vehicles on a busy freeway, every driver depends on the alertness and reaction speed of the drivers in front to provide warning of the need to slow down. Engineers from the DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Center North America in Palo Alto, CA, have been developing a method for vehicles to communicate with each other so that the information is shared directly with all drivers in range simultaneously.
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